Women Fell Into River Trying to Do Yoga Pose

Nature doesn't have handrails.

We've all seen those photos of people doing yoga poses in nature — in the middle of a forest, on the edge of a cliff, on top of a mountain. For these shots, it seems like the closer to the edge of something tall and scary, the more likes you'll get on Instagram. That might be what this woman was going for when she tried to do bridge pose on a log over a river, but things didn't turn out quite so picturesque.

Twitter user @ChisaMariee posted a video of herself attempting bridge pose on a log over a river in May, but after it surfaced recently on Reddit, the post has quickly gone viral. The 45 second video shows Chisa trying to get into the pose, then taking a topple and being swept away by the river beneath her. Luckily, Chisa was OK after the fall, and she even made a joke out of it.

"If the yoga picture wasn't worth it or if I don't make it on America's Funniest Home Videos it was not worth it at all," she said.

In replies to the tweet, Chisa said the fall was about four or five feet down, but the current swept her about 30 feet downstream. She said she got a good laugh after the situation, but was pretty nervous during the whole ordeal.

"When I finally got back to my car afterwards I laughed harder than I ever have in my life before haha and yeah I was afraid I was gonna get knocked out on a rock," she wrote on Twitter.

Since Chisa lived to tell the story of her fall, she went back to prove she could get a good yoga shot next to the river. She posted what she called her "redemption picture" recently. Of course, attempting poses in precarious places can be dangerous, so Chisa's fall is one to remember if you're considering doing the same.